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Issue 7: My review pointing out racism gets taken down

Welcome to the seventh edition of Scuttlebook! Glad to have you here. This month I’m telling the story of the time I reviewed a novel by a white NZ author that I considered to be racist. My review was published, but when the author complained my editors folded and

Issue 6: Is this NZ book reviewer going to librarian hell?

negative book review

Issue 5: I write a "racist" book review

Welcome to the fifth issue of Scuttlebook from your friendly neighborhood book reviewer. As well as the literary criticism I know that you’re here for the real tea, so here we go. This month I’m bringing you the story of the time I wrote a review of a

Issue 4: Be gay, do books

negative book review

Issue 3: Review of a bad historical novel

Welcome to the third issue of Scuttlebook, and the first to be paywalled. This is an experiment so we’ll see how it goes. Why are so many of our historical novels so mediocre? I’ve been reviewing books professionally now for a dozen years. When I was looking over

positive book review

Issue 2: Review of Pet (not that one)

Welcome to Scuttlebook

Welcome to the inaugural edition of Scuttlebook, all about book reviewing in Aotearoa New Zealand. (The person who came up with the name wished to be acknowledged without being identified, so I hope this suffices.) What is Scuttlebook? My thoughts so far are that Scuttlebook will be a combination of